[NFHale]

“...“We only lack the will to do it...”...

WhiskeyX, You lead; we’ll follow. Also... you put up the funds.

[Impy]

We are so far away from human colonies in space let alone "terraforming" and "warp drive" (if that's possible at all) it's not even funny.

If technology gets so advanced we have warp drive then I don't see why we wouldn't have the technology to negate all this CLIMATE CHANGE (yes that's why the article says we have to take to the stars) damage (terraform Earth!!), if it were real that is.

In other words this article is the scientific equivalent of mast**bating to Star Trek and then going out for brunch at Howard Johnson's.

[WhiskeyX]

“WhiskeyX, You lead; we’ll follow. Also... you put up the funds.”

Already been there and done that. I won’t be around that much longer, so it is time for the following generations to take on the task for their descendants. I and my colleagues lobbied Congress to build and operate the Space Shuttle that was used to build the International Space Station (ISS). My generation got us to the Moon and manned the first human habitats in space for the past 44 years. Bigelow has orbited the first prototypes for commercial space stations, Genesis I and Genesis II. The Chinese have launched their first in a series of Chinese space stations, the Tiangong 1 in 2014.

Shake a leg and get on with the job of corralling an iron rich asteroid before someone else not so pleasant gets the job done.